We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenShift Online Small.highcpu gears. The Small.highcpu gear is a new low-cost, production-ready gear designed to provide double the CPU performance of our existing Small gears.

Priced aggressively at just $0.025 per hour, Small.highcpu are the lowest-cost production-ready gears OpenShift Online offers and are ideal for scalable web services and small databases.

Production gears are available in three sizes: Small.highcpu (512MB RAM), Medium (1GB RAM), and Large (2GB RAM) with expandable storage options. See our pricing page for more details.

The Small.highcpu gear is available now to all new and existing Bronze and Silver plan members. Don’t have the Bronze plan? Upgrade today to try out the new gear.

Want to know how the new Small.highcpu gear stacks up against Small? Check out this short demo for a comparison: